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Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Shoulder Angels
We've all seen this illustration in movies and cartoons when a character has to make a moral decision- a small devil on one shoulder, and an angel on the other, whispering in the character's ear to persuade him to do the right thing or the wrong thing. The devil represents temptation, and the angel represents the conscience. It's pretty much the perfect way to illustrate a moral dilemma, but where did it come from? You won't be surprised to learn it goes way back, a couple thousand years or so. But why are they small and standing on someone's shoulders? Duh, the easier to whisper in his ear, my dear. Everyone knows what it means, and it's certainly less boring than just using a disembodied voice to explain to the audience what the character is thinking. (via Laughing Squid)
Tron 1 Looks Like a Robot from the Movies
One way to get everyday people involved with a robot is to make it less like a human, and therefore less creepy. LimX Dynamics introduces the TRON 1, a bipedal robot that looks relatively unthreatening. It resembles robots we are familiar with from the movies (Tron, Star Wars, Robocop, Battlestar Galactica, etc.). For a two-legged robot, it balances really well, and has three different "foot" modes that can be switched out. And boy, can it dance!
You can have your own Tron I for just $15,000. I'm sure it can do things besides walk upstairs and dance, but what it's supposed to be useful for isn't really explained. I can't see it pushing a lawnmower or washing dishes. I'm sure it would be easy to attached a machine gun or a flamethrower to it. (via Boing Boing)
Puppies in a Pumpkin Patch
Devin Supertramp takes a sideways turn from his usual extreme sports videos to play with delightful puppies! Here they are in their Halloween costumes, cavorting in a pumpkin patch at Cornbelly's farm in Lehi, Utah. There's no pop culture tie-in, no plot, and no voiceover, just a soothing adorable sequence to make your day better. (via Tastefully Offensive)
Tweet of the Day
(Thanks, WTM!).I pay internet for this pic.twitter.com/Y3qCR6ik43
— NO CONTEXT HUMANS (@HumansNoContext) October 13, 2024
Monday, October 21, 2024
A Memorable Way to Say It
Funny Nigerian sayings
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Nigerian comebacks are poetic, dramatic, and really funny. When the father said "What will kill me has not yet been born," we can take that to be really badass, or maybe he's saying another child will be the death of him. The one about wisdom is my favorite. (via reddit)
Soccer Balls in the Floor
I'm No Civil Engineer But....I Don't Think They Are Either
byu/ReesesNightmare inWTF
This looks really weird, but there's a perfectly reasonable explanation. Are they putting soccer balls between rebar to save on concrete? Yes, yes they are. This is common in concrete construction and it's called a biaxial voided slab. Notice that the balls are not near the walls or columns, but in the emptier areas. This not only saves on the amount of concrete used, but the ultimate weight of the floor. It also increases the floor's insulating qualities.
However, this particular project is more colorful than others. Builders more commonly use plastic boxes or styrofoam to make concrete voids. These are most likely not regulation soccer balls, but much cheaper plastic orbs. Still gets the job done. (via reddit)
The Most Gruesome Ways Pirates Killed People
In the movies, pirates are charming scalawags who operate outside of the normal limits of civilization. This might give you the wrong idea about the Golden Age of Piracy in the mid-17th century. Sure, some governments turned a blind eye to certain pirates, as long as they carried out capers that benefitted some nations in their competition over other governments. But most pirates were fine with violence, whether in war or in plundering coastal villages or even in competition with each other. They could be pretty brutal overall. Captains reinforced the pecking order and kept their crews in line with the threat of a painful death, and rivals were treated even worse. Short of death, permanent maiming was on the table, too, which explains the hooks and peg legs. Some pirates weren't above a bit of torture, either, to get what they wanted.
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The “friendship divide” explained: How your education affects your ability to connect.
Attack of the Dead Men 1915: The Great War's Supernaturally Horrific Battle and History's First Weapon of Mass Destruction. (via Strange Company)
Santorio Santori And Insensible Perspiration. The scientists went through some crazy stuff to figure out how much water our bodies lose through evaporation and breathing.
Hemingway, after the hurricane. The 1935 Labor Day hurricane killed 400, many of them veterans who should have been evacuated.
Gruesome, macabre, and coveted Halloween-style home decor.
The short and horrid life of Russia's Emperor Ivan VI. More here. (via Messy Nessy Chic)
Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism? Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five points ahead in Arizona? (via Kottke)
8 Fascinating Facts about Alchemy.
25 Halloween Life Hacks
Everywhere you look on the ‘net, there are tips for making your Halloween celebrations easier or even more fun. As he does sometimes, John Green takes some of those ideas and tests them to see if they really work the way they are supposed to. He doesn’t take a lot of care, so your results may vary, but you get the idea. My contribution: use a large rubber glove, cut the glove off with scissors, including each finger. But his result is funnier, in the Halloween episode of the mental_floss List Show.
PS: I have never found a better way to carve a pumpkin than by using a hole-boring drill bit and a sawzall. Done in two minutes.
Tweet of the Day
I believe the bird is a tawny frogmouth, not to be confused with the Australian boobook.The most Australian video I've ever seen pic.twitter.com/ve6h33hR3O
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) October 17, 2024
Sunday, October 20, 2024
The Oregon Zoo Rhinos Celebrate Autumn
During harvest season, we often see videos of zoo animals having fun playing with and eating pumpkins. At the Oregon Zoo, they have the annual "Squishing of the Squash" event for the elephants. Now we get to see the rhinos do it in an event that should be called the "Goring of the Gourds." The pumpkins are donated by local farmers with extra pumpkins and hobbyists who grow giant pumpkins for the fun of it.
The black rhinos showed us what those horns are good for -they are tools, used to open up a pumpkin by goring or even slicing it. They are also pretty good for tossing things or even carrying them around. Oh, yeah, the elephants have already had their Squishing of the Squash this year, too. A good time was had by all. (via Laughing Squid)
Fox News Interview with Kamala Harris
The opening skit on Saturday Night Live last night trotted out all the political characters of the season to highlight the absurdities of the presidential campaign. Kamala Harris suffers through a Fox News interview and spits memes while Brett Baier plays unrelated but hilarious clips of what Trump has been doing on the campaign trail.
Singing Cat
This video is only three seconds long, so you’ll want to play it again and again. Matt Ambrose is singing “Boom Boom Boom” by the Outhere Brothers. His cat Maximus is, too. (via Viral Viral Videos)
Tweet of the Day
(Thanks, WTM!)Romina, who has insomnia, sometimes cannot sleep for days and then falls into a very deep sleep. When Romina falls into a deep sleep, her cats worry about her and come to check her breathing frequently and massage her pic.twitter.com/UhizooN5Ou
— contents that ll heal your depression 🌻 (@Catshealdeprsn) October 11, 2024
Saturday, October 19, 2024
How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth
The Soviets were really big on proving they were the best at everything, whether it was science, nuclear weapons, the space race, or Olympic athletes. That probably had something to do with why they decided to dig the deepest manmade hole on earth. Oh, there were plenty of scientific research reasons, but the expense involved leads one to believe it was mainly another superlative they could brag about.
The Kola Superdeep Borehole is more than seven miles deep, or 12,262 meters, to be exact. The Soviets kept digging for 19 years, from 1970 to 1989, when the fall of the Berlin Wall suddenly shifted government priorities (like survival). But the project had other problems, too, that had to do with the earth and what's going on seven miles down there. Half as Interesting explains the project in a little over seven minutes; the rest of the video is an ad. (via Digg)
The Taco Bell Chihuahua
Taco Bell has built quite a large business on the premise of combining the same five ingredients into a wide variety of food items in different shapes and sizes, with a wide price range. Staying open until the wee hours helped a lot, too. They've not been as lucky with their advertising campaigns, though. The biggest and most memorable was the Taco Bell chihuahua that was everywhere in the late 1990s. The dog was cute, the scenarios were funny, and you saw those ads every time you turned a TV on. The chihuahua image was made into plush dolls and graced t-shirts. Then suddenly, the ads with the chihuahua were gone, and no one really noticed because, well, it was advertising after all. Weird History Food explains where the chihuahua came from, how he (or actually, she) became a sensation, and why the dog disappeared so quickly. No, it wasn't because the dog died.
The Haunted Elevator
What’s a haunted house without the totally scary David S. Pumpkins! Warning: frightening. This haunted house tour is brought to you by Saturday Night Live. Can you believe it's been eight years since we met him?
Tweet of the Day
(via Nag on the Lake)The zoo in Japan brings the panda's favorite red leaves to its cage to boost its morale. It's really impressive to watch the panda's happiness after this treat. 🥰
— Tansu Yegen (@TansuYegen) October 4, 2024
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Friday, October 18, 2024
The Curse of Dracular
Claymation artist Jack Paterson found a story that his father had written for a school assignment in 1974, when he was only nine years old. If you recall that time, the Hammer films with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing were quite popular, and they obviously inspired this bloody tale. Fifty years later, Paterson used that story verbatim to make a movie about Dracula, which is spelled Dracular just as it was on that original assignment.
Although the film is comical, it comes from a very personal place as my Dad has been a continuous inspiration to me for as long as I can remember, and I credit a lot of my love of film and animation to him. Thus, this film is in large part a tribute to him. Claymation is also our favourite form of animation, and some of my oldest memories were us sculpting various characters and creatures out of Play-Doh and Plasticine.The film has since won awards. It moves a little slow at the beginning, but then picks up in a rather gory way. After all, it was written by a nine-year-old. Dad has to be proud of the result.
Onyx
Candice thought about getting a cat, and suddenly, she sees a stray kitten. It's the cat distribution system at work, although I have some bad things to say about people who dump unwanted kittens around town. Anyway, Onyx worked her way into Candice's heart, as kittens will. Also, I love unexpected names for cats. Naming a gray kitten Onyx is like naming a black cat Ginger or naming an orange cat Marshmallow.
About Lobotomies
During the first half of the 20th century, many psychiatric disturbances were treated by cutting into the brain, as in a lobotomy. Why were doctors so keen on cutting the connections in people's brains? It was more of a societal problem than it was concern about the individual patient. Lobotomies made psychiatric patients easier to deal with. As bad as that seems, the conditions that led to lobotomies during the surgery's heyday make us cringe in the 21st century. They couldn't execute troublesome and inconvenient people, so they just cut their brains to make them into more convenient people. Some parts of our history truly resemble dystopian science fiction horror stories. (via Laughing Squid)
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When Packing for the Emergency Room, Don't Forget Your Sunscreen. (via Metafilter)
Stan Lee's home in Los Angeles is for sale for $8.8 million, complete with a triple Spider-Man. (via Boing Boing)
NASA finally knows what happened to all the water on Mars. (via Damn Interesting)
Miscarriages are incredibly common. Abortion bans have made them less safe. (via Kottke)
Five Literal Kings for a Day. Actually less than a day.
Shipwreck Hunters Find Lost World War II-Era Submarine That Vanished With 64 Crew Members Onboard.
It's been 15 years since the Balloon Boy Hoax. Relive those days with a 17-minute documentary about the whole affair. (via Metafilter)
Homemade Tauntaun Costume
Clint Case was ready with a video camera when his young son tried out his Halloween costume. He will be trick-or-treating as Luke Skywalker riding his Tauntaun. This adorable costume is completely handmade.
“Is your Taintaun drunk?” Sure, you can buy a Tauntaun costume, but it’s not going to hold a candle to one you make yourself. (via Tastefully Offensive)
Tweet of the Day
(Thanks, WTM!)Again, again..🐈🐾😅 pic.twitter.com/JQF1ERDxuA
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) October 12, 2024
Thursday, October 17, 2024
How to Do Halloween Decorations
25 years to build, a week to set up! It’s my third year decorating this beautiful old mansion.
byu/UptonDide inhalloween
Redditor UptonDide is a cosplayer at Ren Faires, a model airplane enthusiast, a dad, and is doing renovations on his very old home. He is also very much into Halloween decorations. His collection of tombstones is north of 100 stones now, all handmade. You can look through his post history to see closeups of some of them, with their pun epitaphs. (via reddit)
Osprey Tangled in Fishing Line
Man rescues hawk tangled in fishing line
byu/beemer-dreamer ininterestingasfuck
This guy was frightened, but he stepped up to do what he had to do, to free a juvenile osprey from certain death when he was wrapped up in discarded filament. You can see his hands shake as he reaches into those claws to cut the line. The osprey is too exhausted to fight, and over time comes to understand he is being helped. A wildlife expert in the comments says he did good, but urges anyone else in this situation to put on gloves first.
An Honest Trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The Tim Burton sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was released about six weeks ago and has so far made back more than four times its production budget. Audiences liked it, and so does Screen Junkies. This Honest Trailer gives us more insight into the film in case you haven't already seen it. Like the original 1988 Beetlejuice, the title character isn't the main character because he's just too chaotic and better in small doses. Also like the original, most of the characters are dead, yet the creepiness is all so over-the-top, you never forget they are in a comedy. The main idea of the Honest Trailer seems to be that it's very much like the original, which was fun, but there's no real glory in doing something that has been done well before.
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The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 is 900 pages long. But you can read it in condensed comic book form, subject by subject, in your own time, at Stop Project 2025. (via Metafilter)
5 Inventions That Came Out of the Great Depression.
Death as a Child: The Modern Legend of the Black-Eyed Children.
Star Wars Geek Builds Rideable and Fully Functional AT-AT.
The pickled dragon hoax that fooled the world. The way to pull off a hoax is to claim it's someone else's hoax. (via Damn Interesting)
"It's Election Day, Charlie Brown." The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug.
Atmospheric phenomenon Steve spotted over south-east SA following Aurora Australis. (via Metafilter)
Princess Cumulus
You recall the LED Stickman costume that Royce Hutain made for his toddler daughter Zoey in 2013. He improved on that to make it a Minnie Mouse costume for her in 2014. In 2016, he and Zoey collaborated on a new costume: a thunder cloud! She is “Princess Cumulus.” The costume is an adapted inflatable suite with Arduino-controlled LED strips underneath. The fart sounds for thunder are Zoey’s contribution. While they had fun with this one, it was impractical for going door-to-door, so she trick-or-treated as Wonder Woman. (via Tastefully Offensive)
Tweet of the Day
(via Everlasting Blort)this made my day 😂 pic.twitter.com/vW5JKpSOvz
— Posts Of Cats (@PostsOfCats) September 30, 2024
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
The Superbowl Shuffle
Nothing says 1985 like the Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew doing "The Superbowl Shuffle." (via Metafilter)
The Exchange
In an action movie, this simple exchange would be handled by experienced professionals who are practiced in their mission. Real life doesn't work like that. We know that any story from Birdbox Studio is going to go completely sideways from what we would normally expect. In their latest production called The Exchange, we see a suspicious meeting from a distance through binoculars, so we can't know what was said. But we can imagine based on what we see. Sure, you feel sorry for the participants, but you have to keep telling yourself it's just a fictional story. We hope. (via Nag on the Lake)
Broken Peach Halloween Video 2024
The Spanish band Broken Peach is really into Halloween. For this year's Halloween special, they are once again on their spooky skeleton get ups as they do a rockin' mashup of Blondie's "Call Me" and Kiss's "I Was Made For Lovin' You" that is so seamless that you realize they are basically the same song. Also mixed in is a bit of the song "Joker and the Thief" by Wolfmother. You might watch this video and think there's some stop-motion shenanigans going on, but watch the fog machine effects on the floor. It shows they are just that well-rehearsed in their jerky skeleton dance.
Urban Geography: Why We Live Where We Do
Cities are all cities, but they differ greatly in everything else. You know European cities are older, but you probably don’t know how much that affects everything else about them. One big difference is how dense they are. Modern technology, particularly in transportation, affected how cities grew. Wendover Productions tells us all kinds of interesting things about cities that you never thought about before. (via reddit)
Tweet of the Day
(Thanks, WTM!)Bro was waiting for the cat to get up pic.twitter.com/D93xBFaiOx
— No Cats No Life (@NoCatsNoLife_m) October 2, 2024
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Look at This Thing
At the 2024 XOXO Festival, Cabel Sasser told the story of how he discovered a forgotten artist. This is delightful. You can skip the first two minutes, but you'll be glad you stayed for the ending. (via Metafilter)
Cat Jungle Gym
That BELLY !! pic.twitter.com/OXE3oQ6ls5
— Posts Of Cats (@PostsOfCats) October 12, 2024
At a tender age, this kitten has learned that you can jump from a height, like a tree, tree and survive. I wish my Sundae could figure that out. (Thanks, WTM!)
Ghostbusters A Cappella
Jared Halley has but one instrument, but he makes an entire band out of his voice, from percussion to synthesizer. In this video, he's accompanied by his son Noah, who has a good voice, too, and his daughter Aria makes a special appearance.
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George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine attempted to climb Mount Everest in 1924, but they didn't survive to let us know if they made it. A hundred years later, a part of Irvine's body has been found. (via Metafilter)
The Adventures of Ralph White's Corpse. His burial was plagued by protests, lawsuits, injunctions, grave robbers, and dynamite. (via Strange Company)
Modern photographic artists recreate classic works of art. (via Kottke)
Even Bacteria Prepare for Winter. (via Damn Interesting)
This Artist Brilliantly Uses Different Jigsaw Puzzles to Create Surreal Mashups. (Thanks, Brother Bill!)
5 ‘Unexplained’ Mysteries That Have Totally Been Explained.
The Great Passive Voice Panic: Why Everyone (Even Grammar Experts) Gets It Wrong. Not everyone; I've never had a problem identifying it.
Quebec Comiccon 2024: 10th Anniversary Cosplay Spectacular!
An Honest Trailer for The Nightmare Before Christmas
Get ready for Screen Junkies to ruin your childhood with an Honest Trailer for the 1993 Tim Burton movie The Nightmare Before Christmas. They say they are doing this for Halloween, but isn’t it supposed to be a Christmas movie? I have my suspicions that this trailer contains things that aren’t really in the movie. Or was it really a Hot Topic ad? (via Tastefully Offensive)
Tweet of the Day
(via Everlasting Blort)https://blort.meepzorp.com/If different fonts were outfits pic.twitter.com/eSYiFfdeGe
— Wisdom Kaye (@modsiwW) June 19, 2024
Monday, October 14, 2024
Brandy
You know the song, but you didn't expect it to be performed by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. This was recorded in 2004 at the Rock Am Ring Festival Nürburg, Germany. (via Laughing Squid)
The Move
The Omeleto short film The Move is supposedly about a couple taking the grand step in their relationship of moving in together. Kate and Todd are excited about finding a roomy apartment they can afford. But the place is a little strange, or let's say, very strange. Maybe that's why it's affordable. What they find provokes shock, fear, and possibilities. You have to wonder what happened to the previous tenants. The viewer is intrigued by an anomaly in the fabric of space and time, and we expect to get a resolution or an explanation, or even a grand adventure. But that's not what this is about at all. The Move was written and directed by Erick Kissak and stars Dustin Milligan from Schitt's Creek and Amanda Crew from Silicon Valley. (via Kottke)
Mashup: "Hallelujah" and "Baby Got Back"
The Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" has been around since 1984, but reached global notoriety when it was featured in the 2001 film Shrek. It's been used in quite a few films since then. The tune is beautiful, but the lyrics are somewhat of an an enigma, mixing biblical and sexual themes. Besides, there are many versions of those lyrics, as Cohen took five years to write them.
But Dustin Ballard, also known as There I Ruined It, took away all the ambiguity of Cohen's song by just substituting the lyrics of "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-Lot. Poetry is poetry, after all, and in this mashup, there's no question of what the song is about.
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Precision food artistry. (via Everlasting Blort)
Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (via Metafilter)
‘Disgustingly Pro-Women’: Flamingos owner turns Yelp review into empowering T-shirt. (via Fark)
A Secret Sculpture Built for John F. Kennedy’s Grave Vanished in the 1970s. Half a Century Later, the Mystery Has Been Solved. (via Strange Company)
People On The Internet Really Hate These Five US States. I've never been to Utah, found Louisiana to be interesting for a short visit, and agree on the rest.
A Tombstone with a Coded Riddle.
'There's nobody like him': Sammy Basso, longest survivor of rapid aging disease, dies at 28. (via Damn Interesting)
The Vanishing Hitchhiker Legend Is an Ancient Tale That Keeps Evolving. If you don't have such a legend in your local area, you could start one.
The Parking Ticket
British comedian Joe Lycett got a parking ticket and decided to fight it. He told the story of what happened on the TV show 8 Out of 10 Cats. (via reddit)
Tweet of the Day
This is Henry. He brings his emotional support duck to his hydrotherapy sessions. They get along swimmingly. 13/10 pic.twitter.com/9thnFnNTjk
— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) October 10, 2024
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Tom BetGeorge's Halloween Lights 2024
Light display maniac Tom BetGeorge has revealed his 2024 Halloween light show! BetGeorge has his own light show production business called Magical Light Shows. BetGeorge's 2024 light show is about a half-hour long, and the sequence set to AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" above is only the beginning. Continue reading to see more.
Feigning Sleep
Just pretend to be asleep, and no one will suspect.
byu/RealRock_n_Rolla infunny
They won't notice anything if I'm asleep! Hey, what's this? Ice cream right near where I'm sleeping! I better check to see if it's any good. (via reddit)
Family Feud Election
The way presidential debates are held these days aren't really debates, but they are a chance to see the candidates side-by-side to compare them. You might as well have them perform on a game show together. Trump, being a former game show host, should have a leg up in such a scenario. But this is Saturday Night Live, so your mileage may vary. Besides, it's a way to get all the political impressions together and include Kenan Thompson doing Steve Harvey.
Halo, the Pool-Playing Dog
He’s a real shark, but he hasn’t mastered the cue stick yet. At least he doesn’t scratch. Sorry about the music; Halo selected it. (via reddit)
Saturday, October 12, 2024
5 Ways British and American Road Trips Are Very Different
Laurence Brown of Lost in the Pond explains the difference between road trips in the US and road trips in the UK. I didn't even know people took road trips in the UK, but if you call the grand adventure of traveling 100 miles to visit someone a road trip, well, there you go. In America, we are liable to travel that far for lunch. My daughters now each live 450 miles from me, and not in the same direction, so I am used to spending 6 to 7 hours on the road by myself just to see one of them. They also travel to each other's homes, which is a much longer trip. When I was younger, I thought nothing of driving 12 hours to the east coast, or 18 to Florida. There's a one-minute skippable ad at 1:45.
Minnesota Lynx
That's a big kitty, with such luxurious fur you want to wrap your arms around him and squeeze him good. Not a great idea, because Canada lynx are wild animals that are definitely sharp on five ends. They have strong back legs that are longer than their front legs in order to leap onto prey. They have huge paws that work as snowshoes. They avoid people like the plague. And there aren't nearly enough of them. The Voyageurs Wolf Project has plenty of camera traps in the woods of northern Minnesota to study and document wildlife. Their focus is on wolves, but they caught glimpses of Canada lynx quite a bit over the past year.
The Phone Alarm Must Be Destroyed
If you wake up by a phone alarm, your natural instinct is to make it stop by any means necessary, and if you are too sleepy to function, that may even include destroying the phone. Joseph Herscher of Joseph's Machines made a chain reaction contraption that tries to do just that. But while the machine works, all it does is move the phone through the course of the device, without harming it at all.
The reason for that is that this is an ad. Herscher got the attention of Casetify, a company that makes protective phone cases. He was glad to construct a Rube Goldberg machine to abuse the phone mercilessly to show how well the case protects it even if it meant his machine didn't quite do the job it was seemingly designed for. The chain reaction machine made more noise than the alarm! And at the end, after all that nonsense, he got up out of bed against his wishes by the actions of the machine anyway. (via Boing Boing)
The Art of Yosegi-zaiku
In his workshop in Hakone, Japan, a master craftsman shows us the art of Yosegi-zaiku. You really should watch the video before you read the Wikipedia article on it, because you'll enjoy discovering what it's all about as he goes through the process. Also, the video itself is beautiful and soothing, with lovely music. If you spot any finished Yosegi-zaiku products in a shop, or maybe in a friend’s home, you’ll be glad you can explain what goes into it. (via reddit)
Tweet of the Day
Maybe they're Christmas caroling!I woulda been scared as hell, what in the twilight 😳 pic.twitter.com/hZzrhTpDkx
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) October 10, 2024
Friday, October 11, 2024
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
The sequel to The Abominable Dr. Phibes is the horror comedy Dr. Phibes Rises Again from 1972. Vincent Price stars as Dr. Anton Phibes, released from his suspended animation by the alignment of the moon and planets. Critics disagreed on whether it was any better than the original, which wasn't really saying much.
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